Look at several industries--drugs, defense, telecom, cars, whatever--and compare how the merged companies did relative to their peers.
It is the first and only measure that can be used to compare and rank the profitability performance of companies in multiple industries.
Always consult with an insurance agent to gather price quotes for various models as part of the car-shopping process, ask about applicable discounts and compare rates from several companies to garner the lowest rates.
Then you compare that to all the U.S. companies that you don't know anything about.
We decided to look at dividend to free cash flow to compare how much companies are paying out of the cash flow available.
The findings compare with a survey of US companies by New York-based research organisation Catalyst, which revealed that women hold just over 10% of director appointments in the top 500 boardrooms in America.
But when you factor in each of these, and compare the company you are evaluating with other similar companies that have raised capital, you can get a pretty good sense of a fair valuation for both sides.
Now these companies will compare their lists to the Facebook list and try to match people up by their email addresses and phone numbers (all in a hashed and private way that does not involve an information exchange, says Facebook) so that similar targeting can happen with Facebook ads.
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In about fifteen minutes, executives can compare their companies against best data related practices in the same vertical.
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Dividing the change in EVA by the prior period sales allows investors to compare companies of different sizes on a level playing field.
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The third leg of our investment process is really to get to know the companies that we invest in, see what the new fundamentals are really like, compare that with the old outdated beliefs in the investment community.
But compare the one-year stock market gains of the two companies.
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This is a somewhat beguiling metric to compare companies by -- market cap measures the value of a company's shares available on the market, and not every company has the same proportion of its overall value available in stocks -- but it illustrates well the diametrically opposite directions in which the two mobile phone makers are moving.
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The value of EV lies in its ability to compare companies with different capital structures.
It also happens to be the only margin that investors can sensibly and confidently compare across companies and across industries.
They compare the problem to horticulture: Scotland is very good at growing tech companies from seedling to pot plant for early sale.
Companies that make machines to sequence DNA like to compare themselves to the personal computer industry in its early days.
Compare that to the late 1990s through 2000, when more than 60% of companies achieved profit growth of 10% or more.
Standardizing the process by which companies strike deals to do clinical trials that compare an experimental drug to a standard regimen made by another company.
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Yes, he was one of the richest men in America, but compare his willingness to serve without compensation to the behavior of modern CEOs who take over troubled companies.
Facebook, which has 350 million users, keeps its revenues secret, and there are no big publicly-traded companies to compare it with, making it impossible for an outsider to monitor the financial heath of the company.
As sales of companies almost always occur at substantial premiums, the cash-out potential will compare very favorably to current value.
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However, these measures do have the advantage of being independent of accounting rules, so they can be used to compare companies in different industries and countries.
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Let's compare it with the same period in the past four years, taking account of financial announcements by companies, which are reported around the same time each year.
One has only to compare companies like Twitter and its much younger Chinese Twitter clone, Sina Weibo, to comprehend the opportunities (and obstacles) internet focused start-ups face in China.
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Jennifer Blouin of the University of Pennsylvania, looked at more than 400 public companies and 98 private counterparts to compare their levels of foreign earnings repatriation.
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Compare this to the '80s and '90s, when dollar strength occurred in concert with the rise of innovative companies such as Microsoft, Cisco and Germany's SAP.
Ramezani used this measure to correct for the fact that high-growth companies also tend to collapse more often, making it impossible to compare portfolios with different growth characteristics over a number of years.
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